[BUG] Core dump w/ bus error on bad mmap'd packfile

Hi, I was getting core dumps (bus error 7) with git 1.7.1 when doing a git checkout. I tried git fsck, and same thing. I got the same with precompiled rpms of 1.7.12, and with a locally compiled version of git 1.8.5. The simplest/quickest repro I got is using git-fsck. The stacktrace blames

git clone -c core.sharedRepository=group not working as expected (git v1.8.4 linux/osx)

Hi, I'm trying to use this to create a shared repo (group r/w), but it's not working as expected. The help for git clone says Set a configuration variable in the newly-created repository; this takes effect immediately after the repository is initialized, but before the remote history is fetched

git-archive --worktree-attributes (1.8.2)

Hi, In the help for git-archive it states: --worktree-attributes Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too. This doesn't seem to be the case. I have a use case where I need to archive a remote I don't have write access too (via --remote=), and I wish to